2. Noun. A person who uses such a machine ¹
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Definition of Tufter
1. one that tufts [n -S] - See also: tufts
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tufter
Literary usage of Tufter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"... tells us how a neighbour of his in Lorraine had a matin—which I take to be a
half-mastiff, half-hound or pointer animal—which was a capital tufter; ..."
2. The Queen's Hounds and Stag-hunting Recollections: With an Introduction on by Thomas Lister Ribblesdale, Edward Burrows (1897)
"... pointer animal—which was a capital tufter ; but he goes on to say that he
never saw a tufter speak to a line at three o'clock on a hot afternoon which ..."
3. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"tufter is Scandinavian, and is more or less remotely related to tetter, dander,
dandruff, tear, tar, tree, trough, tart, and a number of other words. ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1834)
"One of the most striking objects in the modern city of Delhi, though by no means
one of the most magnificent, is the tomb of tufter Jung, a Mahommedan ..."
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